The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has given preliminary approval for a black bear hunt for December and into the future.

Activists are using Florida’s bear hunt lottery to attempt to block legal hunters. Florida’s Amendment 2 could complicate the ...

As Connecticut eyes a regulated bear season in response to rising human-bear conflicts, the Sunshine State moves closer to ...

The Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission ended four hours of public debate and discussion by voting 4-1 for preliminary rules to guide what would become an annual bear “harvest,” the ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissioners voted 4-1 May 21 to have a black bear hunt for 23 days in December, but the measure must be voted on again in August to be finalized.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is taking another step towards reinstating an annual black bear hunt. The commission is meeting Wednesday, May 21, in Ocala to consider rules for a ...

Black bear advocates from around the world are buying Florida hunting licenses in hopes that they'll draw a lottery permit to kill a bear in December. "Never in my life did I think I'd be a hunter ...

The hunt, the first in a decade, would be held in four parts of the state and could lead to as many as 187 black bears being ...

Florida released proposed rules Wednesday for an annual hunt of the state’s largest land mammal, the black bear, but bear advocates quickly blasted those rules for favoring trophy hunters and ...

Ten years ago, Florida held a black bear hunt that resulted in more than 300 animals killed in just two days before it was halted early. It was controversial from the start and hasn’t happened ...

a distinct subspecies of the American black bear, was listed as a threatened species as recently as 2012; the population had dwindled to about 500 in the mid-1970s and has rebounded to an estimated ...